The Weekend Trap: How to Stay Strong When Routine Breaks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789309878718)

Weekends can look like freedom and feel like a trap. The meetings, routines, and good intentions that hold you steady Monday to Thursday can dissolve into long gaps, late nights, and social pressure by Friday. The Weekend Trap is a practical guide to staying strong when routine breaks, built for real weekends: imperfect, changeable, and full of invitations you did not see coming. Priya Dhanvel shows you how to design a recovery weekend plan that is supportive without being restrictive. You will learn weekend relapse prevention through simple structure, realistic pre-decisions, and recovery check-ins that take minutes, not hours. The book helps you map your personal risk windows, use trigger management tools in the moment, and handle social triggers sobriety brings up, from teasing to subtle pressure. You will also build boundary scripts that protect your time and energy, plus a support contacts plan that works even when no one replies right away. This is for anyone who wants weekends that feel calm, connected, and genuinely enjoyable without relying on substances or harmful coping. If you are tired of white-knuckling through Friday nights, dreading Sunday evenings, or wondering why a "good week" keeps ending the same way, this book offers a repeatable system for managing unstructured time and creating weekends you do not need to recover from.

Author: Priya Dhanvel
ISBN-10: 9309878711
ISBN-13: 9789309878718
Publisher: Mindful Pages
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2026
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d